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Re:Midjourney Medical on Thursday June 18, 2026 @03:16AM (#48581913)
The targeted scans and tests that we already do offer surprising little benefit.

Mammogram screening based on randomized-trial all-cause mortality, has not shown a measurable reduction in total deaths.

Randomized colonoscopy screening has not shown a statistically significant all-cause mortality reduction.

Re:Office on HP-UX and Unix on Saturday August 16, 2025 @07:27PM (#44927677)
Word docs being the medium of exchange created enough of a network effect. I remember trying to use other programs but importing/exporting to Word wasn't perfect.
Re:Comma 3X: Initial Impressions on Friday May 16, 2025 @04:19AM (#44002963)
I bought one for my 2020 Toyota Sienna a couple months ago. The best analogy is that it's like upgrading to Tesla Autopilot. It's great for highway and freeway driving but not city streets.
My classmate from nursing school is an RN at that hospital, I'm not surprised.
Re:Intel's Immiseration – The Chip Letter on Thursday August 08, 2024 @06:16PM (#41196936)
Intel's decline was obvious when I worked for them in 2010, their compensation package wasn't competitive with FANG and they consistently missed out or lost their better engineers.
Re:Who is driving Germany's far-right poll surge? on Sunday August 27, 2023 @03:59AM (#37280434)
The article is a nicely illustrated analysis of the issues (migration policy) driving the increase.
Re:Ask HN: Has anyone started over outside of tech? on Friday March 03, 2023 @10:18AM (#35010700)
After a decade as a software engineer I became a nurse. It has its pros and cons. The defining difference is shift work vs project work. In California the pay is similar to tech which is a plus. Also watching all my previous teammates get laid off during the tech downturns is a motivating factor.
Re:I Got Banned for Life from Airbnb (2018) on Thursday September 08, 2022 @03:15AM (#32762318)
No, if they catch you they'll ban both accounts. They banned a conservative political activist's husband's account preemptively after banning her, https://news.yahoo.com/michelle-malkin-banned-airbnb-attendi...
It's not Republican. In the last presidential election, the county voted 60% Democrat (Pine Bluffs is the largest city and county seat).
Re:Ask HN: Why do you use a VPN? on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @11:52PM (#31996499)
International travel. My bank (credit union) and cell phone provider (AT&T) both block non-US access. I also use it to get around Vietnam's blocking of websites e.g. BBC.
Re:Offboarding: Saying Goodbye with Grace on Saturday October 09, 2021 @12:24PM (#28811150)
Send a death certificate.
Re:I Am Not Satoshi Nakamoto on Friday September 24, 2021 @09:16PM (#28649513)
Bruce linked to his own opinion piece in Wired.
Re:Pen Plotter Art and Algorithms, Part 1 (2017) on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @12:22AM (#28376410)
I tried to register via Google at https://fountaincards.com/register and received a 404.
I doing my part by drawing it in cartoons.
The irony considering YouTube's step up of purging channels with alternative viewpoints.
Re:When Did Life First Emerge in the Universe? on Sunday April 04, 2021 @09:38PM (#26694495)
A more interesting paper is Life Before Earth, https://arxiv.org/abs/1304.3381, analyzing biological complexity and projecting into the past for an origin of 9.7 billion years ago.
Re:I want off Mr. Golang's Wild Ride (2020) on Saturday January 02, 2021 @11:26PM (#25619435)
A compelling critique that Go's embodiment of the "Worse is better" philosophy from Unix is to its detriment.
Re:Java Verbal Expressions on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @01:28PM (#25212483)
Anything but the simplest regexes are tricky to correctly write.
Re:New case studies about Google’s use of Go on Thursday August 27, 2020 @02:55PM (#24297223)
Re:A First Try at ROI: Ranking 4,500 Colleges [pdf] on Friday December 13, 2019 @09:48PM (#21787453)
NPV is more sensitive to major than college. A Berkeley liberal arts degree has lower lifetime earnings than a Cal State nursing degree.
Re:Nine-year-old child to graduate university on Friday November 15, 2019 @01:47PM (#21547526)
How did it affect you romantically?
I'm bearish on Intel. The culture is conservative and unwilling to compete with FANG on pay for employees.
It's OK with CrossOver for Linux. I ended up just using Krita. If you're a heavy Adobe user Chromebooks are underpowered (except the Pixel).
CrossOver has a beta Android version that I use to run IE, Adobe Reader, etc.
Re:Social conservatism on American campuses on Monday May 06, 2019 @11:52PM (#19846383)

  The chances of a girl being offended by being asked out are relatively low in any case;
Girls are not nice to unattractive men.
Re:Over 13% of the homes in Japan are abandoned on Sunday April 28, 2019 @01:08PM (#19772257)
A significant percentage of people are not financially stable enough to buy a home and pay a monthly mortgage on time for 15-30 years. But they are able to rent.
Re:How to pass a programming interview (2016) on Saturday March 09, 2019 @12:09AM (#19344603)
IQ tests are one of the best-known predictors of performance in any occupation.
Re:A Founder's Farewell on Monday January 14, 2019 @08:23PM (#18908141)
This is the end of Urbit.
Re:A Guide for Adults Going to College on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @01:33PM (#18858055)
Everybody at my old company was laid after 50, flexible hours: full-time, part-time, on-call, and working 40 hours a week in a cubicle gets really old.

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